5th iBlog Summit Assessment
Before anything else, I need to thank Miss Aileen Estoquia, for her help during our stay inside the UP Diliman Village. Xie xie ni for the very affordable, yet, very great accomodation. I also want to mention Mr. Xerxes Aaron Chua Bernades, my ultimate travel companion. Without him, my journey to Manila wouldn’t be that exciting.
I think, I’m the kind who expect too much, but has very low acceptance. I mean the summit is okay, but it is not what I expected it to be. This may sound unfair to the organizers who had shed rivers of sweats to make the event successful, but this is only my personal observation. This doesn’t necessarily reflect the majority’s impression. To make this review not so bias, I will enumerate first the positive stuffs.
PROs:
- It was held in a very comfortable venue.
- The activities started on time.
- Free snacks and lunch.
- Presentation equipments were all ready.
- Some nice speakers(i.e. those ones who tackled Photoblogging 102, Video Blogging…)
- Nice Q & A facilitation.
- Great after party treats.
CONs:
- There were no ice-breakers in between the talks.
- A certain speaker didn’t discuss well the topic assigned to him. He seemed like he was just talking to himself and was talking about how people treated him because of the peculiarity of his blog. I don’t even think he’s aware of the audience’s reaction while he was there on stage. Good thing his partner saved the topic.
- A few speakers were just merely reading from their power point presentation. Tsk…tsk…
- A certain speaker was out of his mind. He suggested a system of leveling among bloggers, which I find unrealistic and should only remain a theory. From an artist to a maven? What is that? Jeezzz…
- IDs were only given to the first 300 web registrants. This actually made me feel alienated. I’m soo weird. Haha…
- Some of the participants had no free lunch(mostly those late ones). This is understandable since the event had a limited budget.
- Siopao tragedy. I didn’t even bother to continue eating that thing. Haist…the prize of freebies…I sound sooo pathetic. I know. Hahaha!
- There’s no getting to know each other activity or program during the after party. Bloggers from Manila stayed with their crowd, and bloggers from the south…well, had also obviously stayed with their own crowd. There were only a very few bloggers who made efforts to reach out to other bloggers. Everyone was very comfortable with their own beloved minions. Or, is it just me? Hehehe!
Lastly, to be fair, I did enjoy the overall event. I also learned a lot of new things and had also met few interesting people. Btw, here’s a CBS group pic during the after party at Katips.
Photo Credits: lord_dracula and vanjahnn
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May 13th, 2009 at 8:10 am
wow.. enjoy diay kaayo ka ha..
May 13th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Nice comment. I know that those comment will make iblog6 better.. I think it is because there are lots of speakers that is why there are no time to have a break in each.
During iblog4 I was able to promote my blog in front and after that lots of blogger introduce to me, and I also introduced myself to other whom I know because of that..
May 13th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
“also met few interesting people.”
Ehem! Si kinsa guro ni! Ako jud ipost ang photo! Lol
May 13th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
lolers…i wasn’t thinking what you are thinking…you’re the only one who find that mortal interesting…NOT me…hahaha
May 14th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
nice to see you again! and it’s nice to see the cebu bloggers. sa manila pa gyud!
medyo daghan pa kaayo shy in person bisan sikat na sa web. maybe next time, there will be more time to mingle (or as they say, network offline).
May 14th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
mao!…wala man kaau ta nagkabonding oi…mura mag naay moy inyong world..ehehe or bali ba kaha…eheh
May 14th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
na out of this world mi didto pag-gabii but we stayed on and enjoyed the freebies. wala man sad mangadto ang among ubang sikat-sikat na kaila magpatakod unta mi. the others were in their own worlds too. good thing you guys arrived!
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:06 pm
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